Pre-upload gate suite and TestFlight-first verification plan
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Children
- TestFlight-only diagnostic build numbering (non-contiguous builds, "Internal Only" uploads) (frontier)
- TestFlight Beta Distribution certificate chain and the 25.1 marker OID across macOS releases (frontier)
- Data-protection keychain probe inside a store-signed sandbox (in-app entitlement probe design) (frontier)
- Profile expiry behaviour of an installed TestFlight Mac app after the profile lapses (frontier)
- App Store Connect REST API build-status polling as a post-upload gate (builds and buildBetas) (frontier)
- Gate ratchet baselines: string, entitlement and Mach-O set diffs against the last accepted build (frontier)
- Reproducible py2app bundles: dirty-tree detection and deterministic bundle hashes (frontier)
- Cloudflare Web Analytics injection rules and what a reviewer's Safari sees (frontier)
- Static vs DOM-rendered page audits for App Review surfaces (frontier)
- NAT64 test harness on a second Mac (Internet Sharing "Create NAT64 Network") for T10 (frontier)
- Wake and lid-close test protocol for menu-bar monitors (frontier)
- NSUserNotificationCenter on macOS 27.x under the sandbox and the UNUserNotificationCenter migration cost (frontier)
- Release-engineering ledger for uploads made from several machines (frontier)
- Docs-drift rules as a lint: fact sources, ignore markers, false-positive budget (frontier)
- Reviewer-device string capture from the rejection message (frontier)
- Second-user and VM-free "fresh machine" protocol for macOS release QA (frontier)
Frontier under this node: App Store Connect REST API build-status polling as a post-upload gate (builds and buildBetas), Cloudflare Web Analytics injection rules and what a reviewer's Safari sees, Data-protection keychain probe inside a store-signed sandbox (in-app entitlement probe design), Docs-drift rules as a lint: fact sources, ignore markers, false-positive budget, Gate ratchet baselines: string, entitlement and Mach-O set diffs against the last accepted build, NAT64 test harness on a second Mac (Internet Sharing "Create NAT64 Network") for T10, NSUserNotificationCenter on macOS 27.x under the sandbox and the UNUserNotificationCenter migration cost, Profile expiry behaviour of an installed TestFlight Mac app after the profile lapses, Release-engineering ledger for uploads made from several machines, Reproducible py2app bundles: dirty-tree detection and deterministic bundle hashes, Reviewer-device string capture from the rejection message, Second-user and VM-free "fresh machine" protocol for macOS release QA, Static vs DOM-rendered page audits for App Review surfaces, TestFlight Beta Distribution certificate chain and the 25.1 marker OID across macOS releases, TestFlight-only diagnostic build numbering (non-contiguous builds, "Internal Only" uploads), Wake and lid-close test protocol for menu-bar monitors